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I had a co-worker who played minesweeper all day long on his Linux workstation which I had remote access to. I grabbed the source code for the exact version of
by ericfrederich 6y ago
I had a co-worker who played minesweeper all day long on his Linux workstation which I had remote access to. I grabbed the source code for the exact version of gnome-mines he was using and compiled my own version with some back doors. I would also launch an xvnc server so I could see him playing from my desk. Sometimes I'd have people over at my desk watching him play. It was hilarious.
I could enable various features while the game was playing. Features included:
* Always lose on first click
* Always win on first click
* Force a guess in all 4 corners... so even if played perfectly he'd have to make 4 guesses.
* Load custom designs from text file. For instance I had some that spelled things out.
* Every click would be completely surrounded by mines (i.e. the number 8) until half the mines were exhausted. This one was fun because I remember him not believing it and actually clicking on a mine.
* Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost
- client4 6y agoIs the company you "work" at hiring? ;)
- muzani 6y agoDid he ever figure out why these "features" happen to him?
- booi 6y agoCan you open source this version?
- IgorPartola 6y agoThis sounds awesome. Also what kind of workplace was this and did he ever find out?
- kbenson 6y ago> Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost You could really give someone some good experiences with that. A game that it artificially seems like you narrowly escape disaster turn after turn can feel great at the end.
- lofties 6y agoIt sounds to me like you installed spyware on your coworkers computer. What kind of company were you working at where people see this as a joke instead of a security breach? And let's not forget the trust coworkers have in you not to fuck with their machines.
- eckza 6y agoSometimes, it's okay to play practical jokes on your friends.
- lofties 6y agoSpyware is not a prank. Let's not come up with vague definitions of what is, and isn't acceptable. Coworker has remote access to other coworkers machine and is abusing this trust to install spyware, setting a president for other "jokes". Sorry man, I don't see anything funny here.
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- jpendry 6y agoYou must be fun at parties.
- loriverkutya 6y agoHe is probably fun at parties and not undermining his colleagues trust at work.
- wruza 6y ago>president for other "jokes" CJO in modern terms.
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- Tepix 6y agoThis reminds me of a prank i played on a classmate in high school. I snuck a "ver.com" command onto his boot floppy (the real "ver" was a builtin DOS command) that installed a TSR (remember those?). We had a very simple custom serial bus network back then. It was sufficient to allow me to send a command to his PC to show a fake game screen when the teacher was looking at his PC. A fun exercise in x86 assembly (fun for me at least)!
- m4tthumphrey 6y agoI didn't install anything per se, but gained access to my colleague's machine remotely and would play very subtle audio messages in his headphones whilst he was listening to music. Was amusing to watch his facial expressions. I also messed with the volume every now and then and once went a bit crazy and he sussed it out.
- elygre 6y agoAs a consultant, I once did a two-day gig at a client site installing some software on a Sun workstation. It was very unsettling when the "restaurant scene" from "When Harry met Sally" started streaming out from the workstation speakers.
- masonic 6y agoI hope the client fired your company.
- elygre 6y agoThat would have been something! I was on a client-provided workstation, and it was the client project manager (!) who played the sound clip on my workstation. I believe this was not their first rodeo, but it was embarrassing as he??. And I don't even think we fired the customer!